American Classical Orchestra Opens Its 2024-25 Season & Celebrates Its 40th Anniversary at Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall, September 18

The program includes Beethoven's Symphony No. 7 in A major, Op. 92 and Mozart's Andante in C Major for Flute and Orchestra, K.315, with soloist Sandra Miller.

The American Classical Orchestra (ACO), New York City’s leading period instrument orchestra, marks its 40th anniversary season with an opening performance led by Founder and Artistic Director Thomas Crawford on September 18, the first of three orchestral concerts at Alice Tully Hall.

Season Opening 40th Anniversary Concert
Wednesday, September 18, 2024, 7:30 pm at Alice Tully Hall
American Classical Orchestra
Thomas Crawford, conductor
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Andante from Serenade No. 12 for Winds, K. 388
Franz Peter Schubert: Entr'acte No. 3 in B-flat Major from Rosamunde, D. 797
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Andante in C Major for Flute and Orchestra, K 315 - Sandra Miller, flute.
Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 7 in A Major, Op. 92

The evening concludes with Symphony No. 7, which premiered with Beethoven conducting at the University of Vienna in 1813 as part of a charity concert for soldiers wounded in the Battle of Hanau. The work was so enthusiastically received that the audience demanded an encore of its second movement, the “Allegretto.” The movement’s enduring appeal is demonstrated by its frequent inclusion as a stand-alone work on many modern programs. Beethoven himself spoke of it fondly as “one of my best works.”

Tickets, priced at $75, $55, and $35, are available at aconyc.org or by calling ACO at (212) 362-2727, ext.4; at lincolncenter.org or the Alice Tully Hall box office; or by calling CenterCharge at 212.721.6500.

The next performance will be an intimate salon concert focusing on Schubert’s popular Piano Quintet (The Trout) at the University Club of New York on October 30.

For details of American Classical Orchestra’s 2024-25 season, click here.